Welcome to this June 2010 issue
on progress at www.studygs.net!

The newsletter is sent twice per year,
with updates on fifteen years’ providing
researched-based online learning guides and exercises,
helping learners to succeed, middle school through returning adult

• Four new guides in English and three revisions:
  Now over 250 topics

• Three Portuguese, three Spanish, three Arabic, nine Vietnamese,
  one Burmese, nine Assamese, and seven Bengali translations added:
  Nearly one thousand translations in 35 languages

• Thirteen new edited and revised student-produced Flash exercises
  in conjunction with the University of Minnesota’s School of Design:
  More than one hundred interactive strategies in a six-year project

• Educational columns for Pragyan, an online newsletter
  of Tinsukia College, Assam, India

• Contributions to a second Vietnamese publication on study techniques
  Dám Thay Đổi /Dare to Change by Nguyễn Đình Sơn (Tomson Nguyễn)

• Historic consulting and mentor for a group of middle school students
  who produced video histories of immigration to Minnesota’s first
  European neighborhood and commercial strip, the West End of St. Paul for
  St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN-Youth)

A curricular idea!

From TeachersFirst Resource Listings,
accessed June 8, 2010

Why not highlight a (SGS) “study skill” each week using your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students TRY it. Most of the topics provide interactive learning or another assignment to help students practice the skill. Have students work individually or with a partner to explore the “topic of the week.” These life skills are so necessary, but hard to fit into the already crammed curriculum. This site does a nice job of integrating the study skills with curriculum content. Have students create their own multimedia projects about study skills using a current unit of study from your class.

Uniqueness in the world of
e- and m-learning:

• Safe, online environment
  helping learners to succeed for fifteen years, with eight million visitors accessing 17 million WebPages in 2010

• Free, uncluttered, registration-free access
  as an independent learner-centric educational public service

• 250+ researched-based topics
  supporting learners, middle school through returning adult, as well as their teachers, parents and support professionals

• 100 learner-developed and peer-reviewed
  Flash exercises reinforcing its guides
  and strategies

• Content in 35 languages
  c.f. http://www.studygs.net/shared/language.htm (Urdu under development)

What challenges lie ahead?

• Continuing to develop this educational resource and realize its potential in helping students realize theirs.

• Volunteers dedicate hours to translations, but…

• Commercial sponsors support its existence, but not future developments that network current technologies

Contribute to the guides;
Opportunities await:
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Thank you for your support

January 2010 newsletter
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Revisit the Study Guides and Strategies WebSite
(www.studygs.net) and its latest developments helping learners to succeed.

joe ////// educationally inclined \\\\\\
Wisdom to discern the right path
Courage to take it
Discipline of joy to encounter it

jos f landsberger; mailto:jfl@studygs.net
651 297 9000 (USA)
Study Guides: research, author, developer
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